The Pretentious Young Ladies by Molière
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MASC. Paris is somewhat muddy; but then we have sedan chairs. MAD. To be sure; a sedan chair is a wonderful protection against the insults of mud and bad weather. MASC. I am sure you receive many visits. What great wit belongs to your company? MAD. Alas! we are not yet known, but we are in the way of being so; for a lady of our acquaintance has promised us to bring all the gentlemen who have written for the Miscellanies of Select Poetry. [Footnote: Moliere probably alludes to a Miscellany of Select Poetry, published in 1653, by de Sercy, under the title of _Poesies choisies de M. M. Corneille Benserade, de Scudery, Boisrobert, Sarrazin, Desmarets, Baraud, Saint-Laurent, Colletet. Lamesnardiere, Montreuil, Viguier, Chevreau, Malleville, Tristan, Testu, Maucroy, de Prade, Girard et de L'Age_. A great number of such miscellanies appeared in France, and in England also, about that time.] CAT. And certain others, whom, we have been told, are likewise the sovereign arbiters of all that is handsome. MASC. I can manage this for you better than any one; they all visit me; and I may say that I never rise without having half-a-dozen wits at my levee. MAD. Good Heavens! you will place us under the greatest obligation if you will do us the kindness; for, in short, we must make the |
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